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US soldiers stand in the shade of a tent as they watch a ceremony handing over the Bagram prison to Afghan authorities, at the US airbase in Bagram north of Kabul AFP PHOTO/ SHAH MARAI
Afghanistan

Notorious Afghan prison transferred to Afghan control

The prison dubbed ‘Afghanistan's Guantanamo Bay’ has gradually come under Afghan control…

Luiz Sanchez
Luiz Sanchez
Abu Treika leaps up to head the ball (File photo) AFP PHOTO
Al Ahly

Tense football climate ahead of derby next week

Al-Ahly wins Super Cup but its most avid fans are not in…

Hend Kortam
Hend Kortam
A man carries a Palestinian child to be treated for wounds on 10 September at the Al-Najjar hospital in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip AFP PHOTO/ SAID KHATIB
attack

Rockets and air raids exchanged between Gaza and Israel

Raids on the Gaza Strip in response to rockets fired into Israel

Hend Kortam
Hend Kortam
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon waits to address the twenty-first session of the UN Human Rights Council on 10 September at the United Nations offices in Geneva. Ban and his human rights chief Navi Pillay called for more accountability for the bloodshed in Syria. AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINI
attack

UN’s attackers in Syria must face justice: Pillay

Navi Pillay calls for holding UN attackers accountable for their actions

Daily News Egypt
Daily News Egypt
Mohamed Magdy Al-Hamshari was arrested at Rafiq Hariri Airport in Beirut (File photo) AFP PHOTO
Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh

Egyptian doctor arrested in Beirut

Mohamed Al-Hamshari under military investigation in Lebanon

Basil El-Dabh
Basil El-Dabh
Britain's Prince Harry examines the interior of an Apache helicopter with a member of his 622 Squadron at Camp Bastion in Helmand Province, Afghanistan on 7 September AFP PHOTO / POOL / JOHN STILLWELL
Afghanistan

Taliban target kidnap Prince Harry

British royal a high value target during four-month tour in Afghanistan

Basil El-Dabh
Basil El-Dabh
A poster welcoming Pope Benedict XVI appears under an billboard advertisement for a retail shop on the Dbayeh highway, north of Beirut AFP PHOTO / PATRICK BAZ
Beirut

Vatican Pope to visit Beirut

Pope Benedict XVI calls Middle East visit a “pilgrimage for peace”

Basil El-Dabh
Basil El-Dabh
Fighters pass weapons through a hole in a building before an offensive against government forces in Izza neighbourhood of the embattled northern city of Aleppo AFP PHOTO / ZAC BAILLIE
Afghanistan

Al-Qaeda-linked militant threatens Syria

Abu Sayyaf vows to fight against Al-Assad

Daily News Egypt
Daily News Egypt
Constituent assembly debates a clause in the proposed constitutional document (File photo) Mohamed Omar
Constituent Assembly

National Front for Democracy and Justice goes after Constituent Assembly

Constituent assembly accused of lacking transparency

Ahmed Aboulenein
Ahmed Aboulenein
Syrian women protesting outside of the Arab League building in Cairo Hassan Ibrahim / DNE
Arab League

Syrian women on hunger strike in Cairo

Six women on seventh day of hunger strike in front of the…

Rana Muhammad Taha
Rana Muhammad Taha